Three days into this year's Pro Farmer Crop Tour, one theme keeps repeating: the scouts' samples are coming in below last year almost everywhere they walk. Because the tour runs the same routes every August, that year-over-year comparison is the signal worth watching, and so far it leans lower.…

Corn found support as the first Crop Tour scouts confirmed the variability traders were bracing for, rather than surprising to the upside. USDA has only trimmed its yield estimates this season, and with the western Corn Belt running dry, the market is watching every stop for just how uneven this crop really is.…

The August USDA report delivered a genuinely split reaction across the complex.…

The August USDA report will be released at 11AM CDT, and once it lands it's easy to anchor on a single headline number. But barring any significant bearish surprise, traders may look past today's print to a set of forces quietly building that could support corn, soybean, and wheat prices through the back half of the year:…

The latest USDA NASS crop progress update highlighted steady national corn ratings alongside minor declines in soybeans and spring wheat, while harvest progress surged in spring wheat. Corn Good/Excellent ratings held at 61%, in line with the average analyst estimate, while soybean ratings slipped 1 point to 62%. Spring wheat provided the sharpest weekly signal as Good/Excellent ratings fell 4…

Grains finished the week mostly higher, led by corn and soybeans. December corn gained about 4.3% and November soybeans about 4.2%, with new-crop beans notching a fresh contract high midweek before easing back in a Friday pullback; wheat was mixed, Chicago slipping while Kansas City and Minneapolis firmed. Geopolitics did much of the heavy lifting. On the Black Sea, Russia kept striking Ukrainian…

The July WASDE landed on the bullish side, and corn did the heavy lifting.…

On July 8, at the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump told reporters to “cut off all trade with Spain, please, including visits,” after Spain became the only NATO member to reject the alliance’s new 5%-of-GDP defense spending target. It was a sharp escalation, and for anyone growing corn or soybeans, it’s actually worth understanding what’s at stake before deciding how much to worry.…

Corn and soybeans eased Wednesday after a strong start to the week. December corn slipped about 8 cents (roughly 1.7%) and November soybeans gave back about 5 1/2 cents, though both remain solidly higher on the week. Corn ground lower through most of the session, with a push lower into the close.…

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Markets closed early for the Fourth, but the holiday week was anything but quiet. Here is what moved grain prices, and what our Market Intelligence subscribers were reading each morning as it happened.…

Heading into today's report, the average estimate called for corn acres to slip slightly, but with planters running fast this spring, analysts had floated the risk of a higher surprise. USDA landed in between: corn held at 95.3 million acres, unchanged from March and just above the 95.0 million average guess. With no bearish acreage surprise and June 1 corn stocks coming in light at 5.295 billion…

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A strong heat wave is building across the central and eastern U.S. this week with many wondering how long this might last as we went into the weekend last Friday. The maps show a patchwork of dry pockets which could worsen if hot, dry weather became entrenched in early July.…